TIL that in 1921 private police in the US dropped bombs and mustard gas on a coal miners' camp when they went on strike for better working conditions
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Battle of Blair Mountain
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century…
TIL of Koko the Gorilla. She knew 2,000 words of spoken English and could form 1,000 different signs of Gorilla Sign Language. One day she told her mentor that she wanted to be a mother, so she gave her a kitten who Koko named. After it died, Koko expressed grief.
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Koko (gorilla)
female gorilla research subject
TIL that Spanish conquistadors in America didn't realize the true value and rarity of platinum and only cared about gold, but counterfeiters would use platinum to make fake gold and silver, so the Spaniards would dump any confiscated platinum into the sea to try and combat this forging problem
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Platinum coin
Platinum coins are a form of currency. Platinum has an international currency symbol under ISO 4217 of XPT. The issues of legitimate platinum coins were initiated by Spain in Spanish-colonized America in the 18th century and continued by the Russian Empire…
TIL that Mozart had an extreme dislike for the soprano Adriana Ferrarese del Bene. She had a strange tendency to bob her head to low and high notes, and knowing this, Mozart chose to fill her showpiece with constant harmonic leaps. He took great pleasure watching her bob her head "like a chicken".
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Opera Omaha | Did You Know...Così Fan Tutte Edition
Join Opera Omaha for its 2019-2020 season filled with incredible productions including, Madama Butterfly, The Abduction from the Seraglio and the third annual ONE Festival, featuring St. John the Baptist and The Capulets and the Montagues.
TIL Psychology researchers found that pressure to feel upbeat can make you feel downbeat. Embracing your darker moods can make you feel better in the long-run.
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Feeling bad about feeling bad can make you feel worse
Embracing your darker moods can actually make you feel better in the long run, psychologists find
TIL that Steve Jobs had the only form of pancreatic cancer that was treatable and curable, but relied heavily on alternative medication, which largely attributed to his death.
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Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
TIL a scientist stationed in Antarctica managed to score a match through Tinder with a woman camping 45 minutes away.
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Tinder Makes Its First Match in Antarctica
Once it was just lonely penguins getting lucky in Antarctica, but now a scientist has proved that Tinder works in…
TIL that the term “Peeping Tom” originates from the time Lady Godiva rode her horse naked around Coventry in protest at her husband’s (Earl of Mercia) tax increases. She asked people not to look but a man named Thomas did and according to legend, was struck blind.
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Lady Godiva
Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, Countess of Leicester
TIL Iran's Queen Tadj ol-Molouk played an important part in the abolition of the veil in Iran during the reign of her husband. She was the first Iranian Queen to show herself in public when she attended a gradation ceremony in modern clothes with her two daughters, without veils
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Tadj ol-Molouk
Tâj ol-Moluk Âyromlu (Persian: تاج الملوک آيرملو, born Nimtâj Âyromlu (Persian: نیمتاج آیرملو; 17 March 1896 – d. 10 March 1982) was Queen of Iran as the wife of Reza Shah, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and Shah of Iran between 1925 and 1941. The noscript…
TIL that till 2016 Michael Caine's legal name was Maurice Micklewhite. He legally changed it to Michael Caine because of the rise in airport security checks. Airport security guards know him as Michael Caine but his passport had a different name which made him wait hours.
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My name is Michael Caine … actor changes name due to Isis
Frustrated by airport security staff, actor Maurice Micklewhite has decided to subsume his birth name to his showbiz moniker for good
TIL all audience members on Judge Judy are paid actors and in order to be able to attend a taping of the show, the actors need to be a member of the Screen Actor's Guild (although some exceptions are occasionally made)
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Submitted October 06, 2019 at 12:53AM by tokoolfourskool
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Judge Judy Free TV Show Tickets
Judge Judy Free Tickets. Smart, savvy and strongly opinionated, Judge Judith Sheindlin holds court as presiding judge over real-life cases on reality courtroom show Judge Judy.
TIL the 1st trip to the South Pole was a secretive mission. 34 days later 5 men reached the South Pole to realize they were they too late to be first ... On the return trip they all died of starvation and extreme cold.
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South Pole
one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface
TIL Kristian Nairn, the actor who played Hodor in Game of Thrones, is a house/EDM music DJ, and he has played alongside people like Fatboy Slim and Steve Aoki. He also headlines his own “Rave of Thrones” club show, a fully immersive Game of Thrones clubbing experience which has toured the UK and US.
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Til that an old 12 inch tall jack russell terrier named George sacrificed his life by saving five children from a pit bull attack. He was posthumously awarded medals and had a bronze statue built in his likeness.
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Submitted October 06, 2019 at 03:37AM by Anathoth1994
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George (dog)
New Zealand dog (died 2007)
TIL: The hormone, oxytocin, which triggers feelings of unconditional love and protection occurs when parents and children look into each other’s eyes or embrace, this spikes in both human and canine brains, we love our pets in the same way as family members, and dogs return this devoted affection.
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Humans love pet dogs as much as their children and the feeling is mutual
Researchers found that the same hormone, oxytocin, spikes in both human and canine brains when a dog is gazing at its owner
TIL a six-year-old named Elaine Esposito went to the hospital for a routine appendectomy. She went under general anesthetic and never came out. Dubbed "The Sleeping Beauty" Esposito stayed in a coma for 37 years and 111 days before succumbing in 1978. The longest-ever coma.
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Elaine Esposito
American coma patient
TIL of a study published in 2000 that found the average high school kid in 2000 had the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950’s.
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Submitted October 06, 2019 at 07:21AM by sm127
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TIL It's possible to die from being too sad due to the stress hormones that get released.
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Submitted October 06, 2019 at 04:36AM by cheated_in_math
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Is Broken Heart Syndrome Real?
The American Heart Association explains broken heart syndrome, also called stress-induced cardiomyopathy or takotsubo cardiomyopathy, can strike even if you’re healthy.
TIL that if you wake up during REM sleep, your chance to remember your dream is 80-90%, while it is less than 50% if you wake up during other sleep stages
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Submitted October 06, 2019 at 01:27PM by bemmu
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The Science of Dream Recall
Raphael Vallat, PhD
TIL: Tom Cruise is obsessed with sending his co-stars cakes, even ones he worked with decades ago. Louis Theroux, documentary maker, even went to his grandmother's 100th Birthday Party to find 100 cupcakes from Tom Cruise, after Tom worked with his cousin.
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Submitted October 06, 2019 at 03:54PM by derawin07
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Insider
Tom Cruise is obsessed with sending his co-stars cakes when he can't eat sugar while he's training
"Mission: Impossible — Fallout" co-stars Tom Cruise and Angela Bassett stopped by CBS' "The Late Late Show With James Corden" and talked about the antics that take place when they're not on camera. The action film hit theaters on Friday, July 27.
TIL The only real world example of sky pirates happened in 1917 when a Norwegian ship was captured by a German raiding party who boarded and seized the ship from a Zeppelin.
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Air pirate
type of stock character from science fiction and fantasy